Key result
Bariatric surgery during LVAD support enables weight loss and bridges an obese patient to heart transplantation.
Why the study?
Obesity creates significant challenges for advanced heart failure patients who meet criteria for heart transplant listing.
Bariatric surgery can be a feasible strategy for weight reduction in obese patients on LVAD support to achieve eligibility for heart transplantation.
May support transplant eligibility in obese LVAD patients; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Obesity poses significant challenges in advanced heart failure patients who otherwise meet criteria for listing for heart transplant. We present a patient who underwent bariatric surgery while on LVAD support that subsequently lost weight and was successfully bridged to heart transplantation.
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Jeng et al. (2016) studied this question. Bariatric surgery performed during left ventricular assist device support enabled weight loss and successfully bridged an obese patient with advanced heart failure to heart transplantation.
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